Improvement in griddles



E. A JEFFREY.

Griddle.

Patented Nov. 27, 1877.

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UNITED STATEs IPAT-EN-T OEEIcE.

EDWIN A. JnrrEnr, 0E JERSEY- CITY, NEW JEEsEY.

`IIVIPROVEMENT IN GRIDDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,516, dated November 27, 1877; application filed May 5i 1877.

Y provements in Griddles, of which the following is a specification:

This invention consists, essentially, in a mold-ring plate hinged to the griddle, or otherwise connected therewith, so as to be reversible in position thereon, and capable of being turned over from side to side ofthe same, leaving the cakes that have been molded and formed thereby to bake, While the mold is ready to receive a new charge of batter.

It also consists inh providing the hot-air chamber beneath the griddle with regulating` dampers or ventilators, whereby the vtemperature of the saine may be varied at will.

It also consists in the peculiar construct-ion of molds or rings and the operating or lifting handle, all of which will be fully hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan of a Fig. 3 is a Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view, showing the con-- struction of the lifting-handle. Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional detail, showing the manner is a side elevation of the same.

' of beveling the mold-rings.

Let A represent the griddle, and B a moldring plate, hinged thereto at c c in. any good and convenient manner. This plate is made about twice the thickness of an ordinary griddle-cake, and the walls of the molds or moldrings are slightly beveled to the center, as shown in the detail, Fig. 5, so as to permit the mold to lift freely from the cake, whichever side of the plate B may be up.

When the griddle is hot enough, and the molds have been properly greased, the batter is pouredinto them until they are about half full. seared by the heat, the cook takes hold of the handle of the mold-plate, somewhat as shown in Fig. 3, and turns the plate over on the griddle, leaving the cakes to be turned and. removed by ordinary means when baked sufficiently. As soon as the plate is turned over so as to rest upon the other side of the After the cakes have become set,7 or

griddle, the molds may again be charged with batter, as` before. When the rst cakes are done and removed out of the way, the plate may be turned back to that side, thus keeping up the operation indelinitely.

Beneath the griddle is shown a hot-air chamber, C, and in the wall or walls of this chamber are tted one or more dampers or ventilators, D. These may be constructed in the manner shown, or in any known equivalent manner. As shown, openings in the wall of the air-chamber are arranged to match'corresponding holes in a slide. A screw or rivet working through a slot inthe slide regulates the play of the same. The ventilator or damper may be fixed in one, two, or all of the walls of the chamber, or in the top, or both, as shown. The object of the ventilator is to so regulate the heat ofthe griddle that it need not be moved about from one part of the stove to another-from a hot part to a cool partfand vice versa.

The ring-plate Bis provided with a pecul liarly-constructed handle, which I will now describes: A bar, b, (see Fig. 4,) is cast or formed in the plate, or attached thereto, to receive the loop c of a wooden or. other non-conducting handle, d. rI he peculiarity consists in giving the loop c a nearly or quite equilaterally-triangular form, as shown. I prefer to construct said loop out of sheet metal, put it around the bar b, place the ends in a sawkerf in the handle d, and fasten by putting a screw or rivet through all. v

The object of this construction is that the handle may remain vertical. The lower side of the triangular loop, resting on the griddle,

prevents its being turned over, the weight of the ring-plate serving to keep it erect and ready to grasp without burning the ngers.

The plate B may contain one or more molds, and the griddle should be about twice as broad as the mold-plate.

I claim- 1. A griddle, as an article of manufacture, provided with a mold-ring plate, B, hinged about the center of the same, and provided with one or more molds or openings extending through the said plate, all substantially as herein described and shown.

2. The combination of a bam, bf triangulmk loop a, emi handig i of woo@ einer' spit@- Ie maera, to form a handle, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The mold or opening in the plate B, hbv'- ing its Wall beveled ormajred.H from the center out to each side; ls'- sioWIiinv Figa 5, herein set forth.

In Witness `vrhefe'of I have hereunto si 'ined my' Home in the pesenee of two snbsewi "ing witnesses.

EDWIN A. JEFILRY.`

VViUnesses;u

Tim. SMIT, HENRY GONNETT. 

